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Poster

Farmall Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Farmall tractors showing a map of the United States with trains speeding in all directions from Illinois. Bears th...
Print

Bird's-Eye View of Wisconsin State University

Date: 1879
Description: Bird's-eye view of Wisconsin State University, now the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Vignettes include Ladies Hall, South Dormitory, University Hall, As...
Photograph

Manitowoc, Wis.

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye view of the city of Manitowoc with a population of 5,168 inhabitants as it appears in 1870, the year the village was granted a city charter by t...
Magazine or Periodical

Pictorial Map of Australia

Date: 1938
Description: A colorful pictorial map of Australia, featured on the front and back cover of a special Australian edition of International Trail.
Drawing

Plan of the Battleground of Huycks

Date: 08 24 1876
Description: Hand-drawn plan of the battleground of Huycks.
Drawing

Hook's Defeat

Date: 03 26 1876
Description: Hand-drawn map showing the place of Hook's defeat in York County in South Carolina.
Drawing

Mammoth Cave Plat Map

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Description: Plat map of Mammoth Cave. A note on the map reads: "Mrs. Campbell conjectures that this is a saltpeter cave in Green River, Kentucky. The mummy found in it...
Drawing

Map of the Battle of Wilson's Creek

Date: 08 10 1862
Description: A hand-drawn map of the Battle of Wilson's Creek, Springfield, Missouri. Other notes and locations include: "Lyon was killed instantly while heading his tr...
Drawing

Map of Missouri Sketch

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Description: A hand-drawn map of the state of Missouri with a separate drawing of a map showing Forts Henry and Donelson. The Missouri map includes Jefferson City and s...
Postcard

Aeroplane View of Chain O' Lakes

Date: 1910
Description: Aerial view of some of the 26 lakes known collectively as the Chain O' Lakes. Caption reads: "Aeroplane View of Chain O'Lakes, Waupaca, Wis."
Drawing

Catawba River

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Description: Drawn map of the Catawba River, fishing creek, and surrounding landscape from the Sumter Papers.
Drawing

Hanging Rock Battlefield

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Description: Drawn map of the Hanging Rock Battlefield in the Thomas Sumter Papers.
Drawing

Hanging Rock Battlefield

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Description: Drawn map of Hanging Rock Battlefield from the Thomas Sumter Papers.
Drawing

Blackstock's Plantation Battlefield

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Description: Drawn map of Blackstock's Plantation battlefield from the Sumter Papers.
Drawing

Fish Dam Ford Battlefield

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Description: Drawn map of the Fish Damn Ford battlefield from the Thomas Sumter Papers.
Drawing

Blackstock's Plantation Battlefield Map

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Description: Drawn map of Blackstock's Plantation battlefield from the Thomas Sumter Papers.
Book or Pamphlet

Scenic Wisconsin Motorways

Date: 1924
Description: Front and back covers of Scenic Wisconsin Motorways, a guide to Wisconsin roads compiled by Victor F. Pettric and published by the Wisconsin Motorists Asso...
Map or Atlas

Plat of Kekoskee

Date: 1857
Description: Plat map of Kekoskee, Wisconsin. Kekoskee is a village in Dodge County, in the Beaver Dam metropolitan area. The community name derives from Indian term fo...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Map, Carte-de-Visite

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Description: Carte-de-visite map of Wisconsin. Broken down into a grid, and includes some topography and Lake Michigan. The letters "M.C." have been written on top of t...
Magazine or Periodical

Telegraphic Systems Map

Date: 08 12 1865
Description: A map of the world showing telegraphic systems for encircling the globe.

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